ACT Announces Tentative Schedule for Rest of 2020 Season
American Canadian Tour
Waterbury, VT – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) has announced a tentative schedule for the remainder of its 2020 racing season. The ACT Late Model Tour is planning up to 10 total events including last weekend’s opener. However, the schedule remains subject to change based on further developments related to the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak.
The next event on the provisional schedule is a trip to Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday, June 28 for a 150-lap event. Confirmation of whether this event will happen is expected by next Monday. The visit to Star Speedway that was slated for June 27 has been cancelled. Next, ACT will head to Groveton, NH’s Riverside Speedway on Saturday, July 11 for the Gardiner and June Leavitt Memorial 150. It will be ACT’s first visit to Riverside since 2018.
N. Woodstock, NH – Williamstown, VT’s Jimmy Hebert showed that fortune favors the bold by capturing the 45th Spring Green 120 at White Mountain Motorsports Park on Saturday, June 13. Hebert made a three-wide move to swipe the lead following a lap-93 restart before holding off American-Canadian Tour ACT) champions Wayne Helliwell Jr. and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. down the stretch in the ACT season opener presented by C&S NAPA Auto Parts of Littleton/Whitefield and Sanel NAPA.
Therrien Among Racers Looking Forward to ACT Opener
Waterbury, VT – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) springs into its 2020 racing season this Saturday, June 13 with the 45th Spring Green 120 at N. Woodstock, NH’s White Mountain Motorsports Park (WMMP). Nearly eight months after the 2019 season finale, teams and officials are more than ready to hit the track in the event presented by presented by C&S NAPA Auto Parts of Littleton/Whitefield and Sanel NAPA.
Top racers from throughout the Northeast are expected to roll through the gates for the pay-per-view-only event that can be seen worldwide on Northeast Sports Network (NSN). While all will be looking for a good run on Saturday, others have bigger goals in mind as they prepare for what may lie ahead in the season-long ACT campaign.
Waterbury, VT – The engines finally fire up on the 35th season of the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) this Saturday, June 13 at N. Woodstock, NH’s White Mountain Motorsports Park (WMMP). The 45th running of the Spring Green, presented by NAPA Auto Parts of Littleton/Whitefield and Sanel NAPA, marks the long-awaited opener for the region’s premier Late Model touring series.
The circumstances of Saturday’s event are far different than envisioned when the 2020 ACT schedule was first drawn up. Due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, no spectators will be allowed to attend the event in accordance with state health and safety guidelines. The Spring Green became the season opener after several previously scheduled events were postponed or cancelled as officials worked to come up with a solution for racing to begin
ACT to Open Season at White Mountain This Weekend Flying Tigers, Strictly Mini’s, and NELCAR Legends Also Join Event on NSN
American Canadian Tour
Waterbury, VT & N. Woodstock, NH – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) will kick off its 2020 season at N. Woodstock, NH’s White Mountain Motorsports Park this Saturday, June 13. Series and track officials have announced the Spring Green 120 for the ACT Late Model Tour will go on as planned with a pay-per-view broadcast on Northeast Sports Network (NSN). Post time has been set for 5:00pm.
All divisions that were originally scheduled for the event remain on the card. This includes the start of season-long track championship chases with point-counting events for White Mountain’s Wells River Chevrolet Flying Tigers and Woodsville Guaranty Savings Back Strictly Stock Mini’s with both divisions. The GoMotorsportsShop.com NELCAR Legends Tour rounds out the program with their second visit in seven days to the high-banked quarter-mile speedplant. The event is slated to be presented by NAPA Auto Parts of Littleton and Whitefield, NH along with Sanel NAPA.
Waterbury, VT & Vallée-Jct., QC – American-Canadian Tour (ACT) and Autodrome Chaudiere officials have mutually agreed to cancel the Claude Leclerc 150 that was scheduled for Saturday, May 30. The event, which debuted in 2019, is expected to return to the ACT Late Model Tour schedule for the 2021 season.
The decision, as with many other racing postponements and cancellations in 2020, was made due to health and safety restrictions in place related to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. To comply with Quebec mandates and guidelines, Autodrome Chaudiere had previously suspended all racing events through the month of August. Furthermore, the United States–Canada border remains closed to non-essential travel through at least June 21, which would preclude U.S. teams from traveling to the track even if it was in operation.
